Google Cloudhttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/Google CloudenThu, 08 Dec 2016 18:00:00 +0000https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/static/blog/images/google.a51985becaa6.pngGoogle Cloudhttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/GoogleforWorkhttps://feedburner.google.comUpdate on Android and Google Play’s progress in enterprisehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/Oj4CivmPXEM/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Two years ago, we launched Android for Work to help connect organizations and enable their employees to work smarter and more efficiently. As a program, Android for Work introduced a common set of APIs built directly into Android and Play, providing a consistent way of managing any Android device.</p><p>Android has extended enterprise support significantly since Lollipop, with security as a top priority. Android helps protect enterprise data and user privacy at a platform level by storing work and personal data separately on personal devices. Most recently, with Nougat, <a href="https://blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/android-70-nougat-brings-more-sweetness-and-security-work/">we added support</a> for file-based encryption, always-on VPN, and a separate password for work apps. These and other management capabilities expand on the<a href="https://source.android.com/security/#google-security-services"> multiple layers of protection</a> that come built-in with Android.</p><p>With the expansion of capabilities in Android, we've also seen partners unlock new use cases for customers. As an open platform that can fit any form factor, Android now powers a growing range of purpose-built devices from leading manufacturers such as <a href="https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/mobile-computers/handheld/tc51-tc56.html">Zebra</a> and <a href="https://www.honeywellaidc.com/products/computer-devices/handheld/dolphin-ct50">Honeywell</a> that can help companies and their employees work in new ways.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Thanks to these investments and the work of our partners, Android has become the most popular operating system on enterprise smartphones shipped globally. Android devices account for 62 percent of worldwide enterprise smartphone shipments, according to IDC*.<br/></p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>To match the progress of enterprise support in Android, going forward we’ll refer to enterprise capabilities simply as part of Android and Google Play. With platform-level support shipping with every GMS compatible device, Android for Work and Play for Work have become a core part of Android and Google Play. We think this change better reflects the built-in nature of enterprise features of Android and our commitment to enterprise mobility.</p><p>We've only begun to see how mobile technology can benefit businesses, and as a platform, we rely on the innovation that comes from our ecosystem partners. To further that collaboration, our London office will be hosting an Android Enterprise Partner Summit in January for our Android partners -- to apply for a spot to attend and learn more, go <a href="https://lp.google-mkto.com/Android-Enterprise-Partner-Summit-EMEA_Apply-LP.html">here</a>.</p><p>Customers interested in how Android can improve their business can <a href="http://enterprise.google.com/android">learn more</a> or get started and <a href="http://enterprise.google.com/android/experience">try it here</a>.</p><p><sup>Source: *IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker 2016 H1.</sup></p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/Oj4CivmPXEM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/update-android-and-google-plays-progress-enterprise/Connected WorkspacesAndroid enterpriseGoogle CloudarticleUpdate on Android and Google Play’s progress in enterpriseWith platform-level support shipping with every GMS compatible device, Android for Work and Play for Work have become a core part of Android and Google Play.https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/manufacturing_android.2e16d0ba.fill-540x540.pngGooglehttps://blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/update-android-and-google-plays-progress-enterprise/Adam ConnorsSoftware EngineerTravis McCoyProduct Managerhttps://blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/update-android-and-google-plays-progress-enterprise/Google and Slack deepen partnership to help teams work better togetherhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/hntAtuBZ8Pg/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Google and Slack share the same vision for the future of work: that smart software can bring teams together and make all of their work and conversations seamlessly available in one place. The result is that teams can move faster and more efficiently. We’ve each been building towards this vision independently, and today we’re announcing a partnership that represents our intent to build towards this vision together.</p><p>We also share the same commitment with Slack to offer our customers choice through open platforms. We want our customers to use the tools they need to be successful and for many companies, including AOL, R/GA and Shopify, that's a combination of G Suite and Slack.</p><p>Through this partnership we’re increasing our joint product and engineering efforts to strengthen the link between the content in Google Drive and the communication in Slack.</p><p>“At R/GA, we’ve found that we create our best work when we can bring teams together in real time from different disciplines, and often different locations. Rolling out G Suite and Slack across the agency, we’ve been able to seamlessly collaborate, connect more easily with our clients, produce better work and reduce the time it takes to get the work done. We depend on smooth integrations to make the most of what both platforms can do for our teams and our clients,” says Nick Coronges, Chief Technology Officer at R/GA.</p><p>Google Docs and Drive were among the earliest Slack integrations and remain the most popular. In fact, a Drive file is imported in Slack approximately 60,000 times every weekday; that’s a file shared every 1.4 seconds.</p><p>Our partnership will focus on several new, richer features including:</p><p></p><ul><li><b>Instant permissions</b>: We’re smoothing out permissions so that files shared in Slack are immediately available to the right teammates. When a file from Google Drive is shared in a Slack channel, the system will automatically confirm that everyone in the channel has access to that file. You can easily add or remove file collaborators with a single click.</li><li><b>Previews and notifications: </b>Files shared in Slack will preview the content you need at a glance. And you’ll never miss an update, since Google Drive and Docs notifications will be delivered to you in Slack.</li><li><b>Slack channels + Team Drives</b>: Team Drives keep teams in sync by creating a central place for shared content, enabled by a new group-level ownership model. <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html">Announced in September, </a>Team Drives is currently available to early adopter customers and slated for broader release in 2017. Customers will be able to pair Team Drives and Slack channels to keep content and conversations in sync. New files uploaded to the connected Slack channel will be automatically stored in the Team Drive; relevant Team Drive updates will be shared in Slack, and the set of people with access will stay in sync between the two products.</li><li><b>Provisioning Slack from G Suite: </b>Companies that run on G Suite already run their organizations via the cloud, and soon with just a couple of clicks in the G Suite Admin console they can provision Slack for teams or the entire company.</li></ul><p></p><p>Working with Slack, we’ll continue to explore how we can make our products work better together, but also ways Google products and technologies can help Slack scale and serve their customers. We look forward to the many ways we can work with Slack and to the enhanced experience we'll deliver together for our customers.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/hntAtuBZ8Pg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 17:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-and-slack-deepen-partnership-help-teams-work-better-together/Google CloudG SuitearticleGoogle and Slack deepen partnership to help teams work better togetherGoogle and Slack increase joint product and engineering efforts to strengthen the link between the content in Google Drive and the communication in Slack.Googlehttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-and-slack-deepen-partnership-help-teams-work-better-together/Nan BodenHead of Global Technology PartnersGoogle Cloudhttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-and-slack-deepen-partnership-help-teams-work-better-together/We’re set to reach 100% renewable energy — and it’s just the beginninghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/Ey8Dge9QIk4/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Every year people search on Google trillions of times; every minute people upload more than 400 hours of YouTube videos. All of that takes an incredible amount of processing power — which means energy. Our engineers have spent years perfecting Google's data centers, making them 50 percent more energy efficient than the industry average. But we still need a lot of energy to power the products and services that our users depend on. We began purchasing renewable energy to reduce our carbon footprint and address climate change — but it also makes business sense.</p><p>I’m thrilled to announce that in 2017 Google will reach 100% renewable energy for our global operations — including both our data centers and offices. We were one of the first corporations to create large-scale, long-term contracts to buy renewable energy directly; we signed <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.in/2010/07/reducing-our-carbon-footprint-with.html">our first agreement</a> to purchase all the electricity from a 114-megawatt wind farm in Iowa, in 2010. Today, we are the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable power, with commitments reaching 2.6 gigawatts (2,600 megawatts) of wind and solar energy. That’s bigger than many large utilities and more than twice as much as the 1.21 gigawatts it took to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-77xulkB_U&amp;t=4s">send Marty McFly back to the future</a>.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>To reach this goal we’ll be directly buying enough wind and solar electricity annually to account for every unit of electricity our operations consume, globally. And we're focusing on creating new energy from renewable sources, so we only buy from projects that are <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/cfz.cc/en/us/green/pdfs/renewable-energy.pdf">funded by our purchases</a>.</p><p>Over the last six years, the cost of wind and solar came down 60 percent and 80 percent, respectively, proving that renewables are increasingly becoming the lowest cost option. Electricity costs are one of the largest components of our operating expenses at our data centers, and having a long-term stable cost of renewable power provides protection against price swings in energy.<br/></p><p>Our 20 renewable energy projects also help support communities, from Grady County, OK, to Rutherford County, NC, to the Atacama Region of Chile to municipalities in Sweden. To date, our purchasing commitments will result in infrastructure investments of more than $3.5 billion globally, about two-thirds of that in the United States. These projects also generate tens of millions of dollars per year in revenue to local property owners, and tens of millions more to local and national governments in tax revenue.</p><p>So, we’re on track to match our global energy consumption on an annual basis by next year. But this is just the first step. As we look to the immediate future, we’ll continue to pursue these direct contracts as we grow, with an even greater focus on regional renewable energy purchases in places where we have data centers and significant operations. Since the wind doesn’t blow 24 hours a day, we’ll also broaden our purchases to a variety of energy sources that can enable renewable power, every hour of every day. Our ultimate goal is to create a world where everyone — not just Google — has access to clean energy. For more on these next steps, read our <a href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//green/pdf/achieving-100-renewable-energy-purchasing-goal.pdf">white paper</a>. </p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Operating our business in an environmentally sustainable way has been a core value from the beginning, and we’re always working on new ideas to make sustainability a reality — like enabling the building of <a href="https://blog.google/topics/environment/google-launches-healthy-building-materials-tool-change-industry/">healthy workplaces</a> and creating a <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/earth/our-most-detailed-view-earth-across-space-and-time/">living, breathing dashboard for the planet</a>. We’ve reported our carbon footprint and published information on our sustainability programs for many years in white papers, blog posts, and on our website. Now, we’ve put all this information together in a new <a href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//green/pdf/google-2016-environmental-report.pdf">Environmental Report</a>.</p><p>You can also check out our <a href="https://g.co/environment">new environment website</a>, where we share stories of how we are finding new ways to do more while using less. Most of our on-campus sustainability initiatives were started by a few passionate Googlers, and have now grown into company-wide efforts. From the solar panels on our roofs to our bike-to-work program, these initiatives sit at the heart of our company culture and help both us and our users reduce our impact on the environment.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>The science tells us that tackling climate change is an urgent global priority. We believe the private sector, in partnership with policy leaders, must take bold steps and that we can do so in a way that leads to growth and opportunity. And we have a responsibility to do so — to our users and the environment.</p><p>We have lots of progress left to make, but these achievements we're announcing today feel like a breath of fresh air. Now, back to work.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/Ey8Dge9QIk4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/environment/100-percent-renewable-energy/EnvironmentGoogle CloudGoogle in EuropeGoogle EartharticleWe’re set to reach 100% renewable energy — and it’s just the beginningIn 2017, Google will reach 100% renewable energy for our global operations — both data centers and offices. To reach this goal we’ll be directly buying enough wind and solar electricity annually to account for every unit of electricity our operations consume.https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Copy_of_TWB_7056.f82fd2ff.fill-540x540.jpgGooglehttps://blog.google/topics/environment/100-percent-renewable-energy/Urs HölzleSenior Vice PresidentTechnical Infrastructurehttps://blog.google/topics/environment/100-percent-renewable-energy/Customize your G Suite experience with App Maker and Recommended appshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/n3Ck0XIB1So/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p></p><p>G Suite is designed to help you do your best work, whether that’s through real-time collaboration that brings your teams together or machine intelligence that speeds up everyday tasks. But we understand your company has unique needs and workflows that G Suite alone wasn’t built to address. We also know your teams rely on many third-party apps for things like CRM, support, and project management to get their job done. So today, we’re announcing two new ways to customize and extend your experience on the G Suite platform: App Maker, a new low-code developer tool for building custom enterprise applications, and the addition of seven new partners to our “Recommended for G Suite” third-party partner program.<br/></p><h3>Introducing App Maker, a new way to build powerful apps for your business.</h3><p>App Maker is a low-code, application development tool that lets you quickly build and deploy custom apps tailored to your organization’s needs. Whether you’re looking for better ways to onboard new team members, staff projects, or approve employee travel requests, App Maker helps you build an app for that in days instead of months. <br/></p><p></p><ul><li>Go from idea to app, fast: App Maker makes it easy for IT or even citizen developers (including analysts and system administrators) to quickly iterate from a prototype all the way to deployed app. It offers a powerful cloud-based IDE that features built-in templates, a drag-and-drop UI, and point-and-click data modeling to accelerate your app development efforts. App Maker also embraces open, and popular standards like HTML, CSS, Javascript and Google’s <a href="https://material.google.com/">material design</a> visual framework, so developers can build apps quickly, in a development environment that leverages their existing skills and knowledge. <br/></li></ul><p></p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p></p><ul><li>Build integrated, tailor-made solutions for every need: App Maker lets you build a range of applications customized to meet the needs of your organization and connects to a wide range of data sources and APIs. This unique flexibility starts with built-in support for <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/">G Suite</a> products as well as popular services such as Maps, Contacts, Groups and more. You can also leverage other Google Cloud services such as the <a href="https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/">Directory API</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/prediction/">Prediction API</a>, or third-party APIs, to create richer, more intelligent application experiences.<br/></li><li>Focus on delivery, not infrastructure: App Maker is built on the same secure and trusted infrastructure as G Suite apps like Gmail, Drive and Docs. Developers can safely deploy custom apps in the cloud without worrying about servers, capacity planning, infrastructure security and monitoring that would otherwise require internal support from IT. <br/></li></ul><p></p><p>Over the past few months, we’ve previewed App Maker with a handful of large G Suite customers and many have already built and deployed applications to their organizations. We’re also working with the following consulting partners to help deliver solutions to our joint customers: <a href="http://www.appsbroker.com/abnews/">Appsbroker</a>, gPartner, <a href="http://www.g-workplace.com/single-post/2016/11/30/Google-App-Maker">G-Workplace</a>, <a href="http://appmakeruniversity.com">Ignite Synergy</a>, <a href="http://www.mavenwave.com/fusion-blog/build-business-apps-fast-introducing-app-maker/">Maven Wave</a>, <a href="http://Google.PWC.com">PwC</a>, <a href="https://sadasystems.com/blog/announcements/introducing-google-app-maker/">SADA Systems,</a> and <a href="http://tempusnova.com/app-maker-trusted-tester/">Tempus Nova</a>.</p>Here are a few ways that enterprise customers and partners have used App Maker to make everyday business processes simpler and more efficient--whether it’s to track suspicious login activities, take analog claims processes and make them digital, or track office inventory orders.<br/><p></p><p></p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Since we launched this program with our first eight apps last year, we’ve seen many examples of how our customers have incorporated them with G Suite to drive more value for their business. We’ve created a webinar series to show first-hand examples of this, and <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uplO3qM6iWmk9LMJy7KgS6Xjzl21H14it4UxCvBT0XM">you can sign up here</a> if you’re interested in attending. In addition, if you’re an ISV that’s interested in becoming a Recommended for G Suite partner, <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/lJEYFaNc2YhynjUh2">please submit your application here</a>.</p><h3>Try these new solutions today</h3><p>We’re committed to helping you get the most out of your G Suite experience by fostering the best ecosystem of cloud applications and partners. App Maker enables you to build powerful apps tailored to your organizational needs, while the Recommended for G Suite program helps your teams select leading apps to grow your business. Both solutions are available today, and we encourage you to try them out.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/n3Ck0XIB1So" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/products/g-suite/customize-your-g-suite-experience-app-maker-and-recommended-apps/G SuiteGoogle CloudDevelopersDrivearticleCustomize your G Suite experience with App Maker and Recommended appshttps://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/SKYCAR_S001_Group0__2.2e16d0ba.fill-540x540.jpgGooglehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/customize-your-g-suite-experience-app-maker-and-recommended-apps/Elissa MurphyVice President of Engineering, G Suitehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/customize-your-g-suite-experience-app-maker-and-recommended-apps/Toyota powers thousands of European showrooms with Chrome digital signagehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/hJiuryQZvSQ/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><i>Editor’s note</i>: <i>Today we hear from Steven Simons, IT Manager for Customer Retail and Product Systems at <a href="https://www.toyota-europe.com/">Toyota Motor, Europe</a>. Read how the world’s largest automaker used Chrome digital signage to provide its showroom customers an innovative and immersive customer experience.</i></p><p>It’s no secret that the internet has transformed how people buy cars — a Toyota study shows an increasing number of people research online before visiting a retailer. In fact, the study found, most people purchase a car after visiting only one showroom. So at Toyota Motor Europe, we set out to create a more engaging customer experience by extending our customers’ digital travels into the showroom, and connect browsing online with seeing our cars in person.</p><p>We first experimented with digital signage in our showrooms in 2014 to display information about our cars in ways that reflected what customers saw online. However, the system we were using was expensive, unstable and difficult to maintain and manage.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>So, we turned to Chrome in late 2015 and replaced our existing digital signage with <a href="https://chromebusinessdevices.withgoogle.com/products/category/chromeboxes">Asus Chromeboxes</a> connected to 42-inch flatscreen TVs. We manage and program all of the devices centrally from Toyota headquarters. Retailers just install the Chromeboxes and TVs, and they’re up and running. That way, retailers can focus on their customers rather than on technology.<br/></p><p>The <a href="https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/digital-signage/">Chrome-based digital signage</a> has become an important sales tool. It displays videos about Toyota vehicles, customized according to the showroom area where the signs are located. So, if a system is installed in a showroom where hybrid cars are popular, the videos highlight hybrids.</p><p>Salespeople use the screens to show customers in-depth information about Toyota vehicles. Thanks to Chrome, salespeople can easily answer customers’ technical questions about things like a car’s Bluetooth capabilities, leading to a smoother sales process. The signs also feature a car configurator, which allows customers to explore and personalize their vehicles. Consumers typically come in with plenty of online research in hand, and they can pick right back up with these configurations in store on our digital signage. Across Europe, 100,000 customers a month use the signage.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>We’ve deployed Chrome digital signage in 3,000 showrooms so far, and plan to install between 7,000 and 10,000 digital signs in total across 3,600 Toyota retailers in Europe. Google Cloud partner <a href="http://fourcast.io/">Fourcast</a> worked with us on the deployment with a packaged, end-to-end solution, and ensured the systems were delivered on a tight, five-day timeframe.</p><p>The <a href="https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/digital-signage/">Chrome-based digital signage</a> is more reliable and easier to deploy than the previous solution, reducing time spent on maintenance, management and troubleshooting. It also saves us on hardware and deployment costs.<br/></p><p>Chrome-based digital signage has done everything we hoped it would. Its features let us show off what’s great about Toyota cars. It’s popular with sales staff and customers, as evidenced by increased usage since it was deployed. Retailer demand is greater than we estimated, showing that it’s an important sales enabler. Overall, the system is meeting our customers’ needs while reinforcing our reputation as a technically sophisticated company. Thanks to Chrome digital signage, our customers enjoy a more unified online and offline sales experience.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/hJiuryQZvSQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/toyota-powers-thousands-european-showrooms-chrome-digital-signage/Connected WorkspacesChrome enterpriseGoogle CloudarticleToyota powers thousands of European showrooms with Chrome digital signageThe Chrome-based digital signage is more reliable and easier to deploy than the previous solution, reducing time spent on maintenance, management and troubleshootinghttps://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/toyota_chrome_signage.2e16d0ba.fill-540x540_ZLog1GF.jpgGooglehttps://blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/toyota-powers-thousands-european-showrooms-chrome-digital-signage/Steven Simons IT Manager for Customer Retail and Product SystemsToyota Motor, Europehttps://blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/toyota-powers-thousands-european-showrooms-chrome-digital-signage/A totally rebuilt Sites, customer-tested and open for businesshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/UJCwLXvgAYg/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Earlier this year, <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/06/powering-a-more-connected-and-collaborative-enterprise.html">we announced that a totally rebuilt version of Google Sites</a> was on the way. Since then, we’ve worked with a set of customers through an Early Adopter Program to test the new Sites and fine tune the experience. Today, the new Google Sites is ready for all customers.</p></div></div>
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If you’re a G Suite customer with Google Sites enabled, <a href="http://sites.google.com/new">you can get started building on the new Sites now</a> or learn how to <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/6399230?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=6399171">enable Sites in the Admin Console</a>. Customers can continue to <a href="https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/11/a-totally-rebuilt-google-sitesnow.html">use classic Sites</a> as we continue to add capabilities and improve the new Sites.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/UJCwLXvgAYg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/products/g-suite/totally-rebuilt-sites-customer-tested/G SuiteGoogle CloudSitesDocsSheetsFormsSlidesMapsDriveCalendararticleA totally rebuilt Sites, customer-tested and open for businessGooglehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/totally-rebuilt-sites-customer-tested/Paul CovellProduct Manager, G Suitehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/totally-rebuilt-sites-customer-tested/9 new ways that Google Cloud Machine Learning can help businesseshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/hyY3csM-OHo/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>At Google, we have a rich history of exploring the furthest reaches of what machine learning can do to help increase access to information and improve our daily lives. For more than a decade, we’ve driven machine learning research that powers many of Google’s systems and products. Today, Google Cloud users across industries — from financial services and healthcare to retail, web services and media and entertainment — now have mightier machine learning models at their disposal through our growing number of intelligent apps and cloud services.</p><p>We’ve recently announced several machine learning updates across our public cloud and productivity services. Here’s a rundown of the latest products and features that can help fuel business intelligence, operational efficiency, productivity and collaboration.</p><ol><li><p><b>Maximize recruitment efforts</b>: The new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/jobs-api/">Cloud Jobs API</a> uses machine learning to help companies hire great talent. By understanding the nuances behind job titles, descriptions, skills and preferences, the API matches job seeker preferences with relevant listings. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/11/cloud-jobs-api-machine-learning-goes-to-work-on-job-search-and-discovery">Learn how it works</a>.</p></li><li><p><b>Analyze images faster, for less</b>: We’ve improved performance and efficiency of our <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vision/">Vision API</a> by taking advantage of Google’s <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercharges-machine-learning-tasks-with-custom-chip.html">custom TPUs</a>,<a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercharges-machine-learning-tasks-with-custom-chip.html"> </a>resulting in an ~80% price reduction for large-scale deployments.</p></li><li><p><b>Translate long-form docs</b>: For users that need long-form translation services, a new premium edition of <a href="https://cloud.google.com/translate/">Cloud Translation API uses a model </a>tailored to increase accuracy on several major language pairs. This tool is built for particular business use cases, such as translating long-form emails and documents. We’ve also reduced the price of the standard edition for higher usage volumes.</p></li><li><p><b>Better understand text structure and sentiment and turn questions into formulas</b>: With <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/docs/explore-docs-sheets-and-slides/">Explore</a>, Natural Language Processing translates questions into useful formulas and offers up instant answers in Google Sheets. And the new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/">Cloud Natural Language API</a>, now generally available, does a better job than ever before at <a href="https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2016/11/15/unstructured-data-google-nlp/">identifying names of people, companies and locations in text</a>. It also now offers improved sentiment identification and syntax analysis. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/11/the-evolution-of-cloud-natural-language-api">Learn more</a>.</p></li><li><p><b>Supercharge cloud computation for complex jobs</b>: With hundreds of times as many computational cores as Central Processing Units (CPUs), Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are great for medical analysis, financial calculations, seismic/subsurface exploration, machine learning, video rendering, transcoding, scientific simulations and more. <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/announcing-GPUs-for-Google-Cloud-Platform.html">We’ll offer GPUs</a> in early 2017 to <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/">Google Compute Engine</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/">Google Cloud Machine Learning</a> users.</p></li><li><p><b>Find stored files on mobile nearly 50% faster</b>: Customers can now use <a href="https://drive.googleblog.com/2016/09/save-time-with-quick-access-in-drive.html">Quick Access</a> in Google Drive on their Android devices to easily and instantly access files that they need. Machine intelligence works behind the scenes to understand individual user needs based on interaction with colleagues, recurring meetings and Drive activity.</p></li><li><p><b>Use smart scheduling to save time</b>: Our G Suite customers now spend less time finding the right time to meet. They can now <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/09/save-time-with-smart-scheduling-in-Google-Calendar.html">schedule a time</a> and book rooms with machine assistance that includes room suggestions based on previous bookings and time suggestions that account for conflicts easiest to resolve, such as recurring 1:1 meetings.</p></li><li><p><b>Tap the power of Google Search to strengthen Docs content</b>: <a href="https://docs.googleblog.com/2016/09/ExploreinDocsSheetsSlides.html">Explore in Google Docs</a> taps into Google’s search engine and machine intelligence to add suggestions based on content within documents. It recommends related topics, images and more for web and mobile docs creation.</p></li><li><p><b>Format presentations faster</b>: <a href="https://docs.googleblog.com/2016/09/ExploreinDocsSheetsSlides.html">Explore in Google Slides</a> adds ease and speed to creating the most presentable presentations, with design <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/7130307">suggestions</a> based on slide content. Recommendations are easy to apply — customers click to add new designs, no cropping, resizing or reformatting required.</p></li></ol></div></div>
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To <a href="https://www.google.com/a/signup/?hl=en&amp;source=gafb-None-globalnav-en&amp;ga_region=noram&amp;ga_country=us&amp;ga_lang=en&amp;_ga=1.36670944.1922661703.1479253307&amp;__utma=183643312.1922661703.1479253307.1479253307.1479407596.2&amp;__utmb=183643312.1.10.1479407596&amp;__utmc=183643312&amp;__utmx=-&amp;__utmz=183643312.1479407596.2.2.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=(organic)%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=(not%20provided)&amp;__utmv=-&amp;__utmk=231642015#0">get started</a> or learn more about saving time and driving productivity with machine intelligence in G Suite, visit the <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/together/">G Suite site</a>.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/hyY3csM-OHo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/9-new-ways-google-cloud-machine-learning-can-help-businesses/Google CloudMachine LearningG Suitemachine learningarticle9 new ways that Google Cloud Machine Learning can help businessesThe latest rundown of Google Cloud Machine Learning products and features that can help fuel business intelligence, operational efficiency, productivity and collaboration. https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/machine-learning-updates-1.055a6186.fill-540x540.pngGooglehttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/9-new-ways-google-cloud-machine-learning-can-help-businesses/Cindy TeruyaProduct Marketing ManagerGoogle Cloudhttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/9-new-ways-google-cloud-machine-learning-can-help-businesses/Welcome Qwiklabs to Google Cloudhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/9PlA4VYY_Y8/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Today, we’re excited to announce the acquisition of <a href="https://qwiklabs.com/">Qwiklabs</a>. Founded in 2012, Qwiklabs provides hands-on lab learning environments for leading cloud platforms and infrastructure software vendors. </p><p>There’s no faster way to get hands-on experience with a cloud environment and to learn all the ins and outs of today’s modern cloud solutions than in a Qwiklabs lab. Qwiklabs offers step-by-step instructions to learn a popular cloud service, test different use cases and train your teams to become cloud experts.<br/></p><p>With Qwiklabs, we’re closing the IP skills gap in the cloud. More than half a million users have collectively spent over 5 million hours learning how to successfully deploy and manage multiple cloud technologies through the Qwiklabs platform. We’re focused on offering the most comprehensive, efficient, and fun way to train and onboard people across all our products on Google Cloud, including <a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> and <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/together/">G Suite</a>. </p><p>We want to help businesses get the most out of their cloud investment and, with Qwiklabs, we’ll give users a place to learn and expand their cloud skills to deliver more innovation, more features and more efficiency for their customers.</p><p>We’re thrilled to welcome Qwiklabs to Google Cloud. Stay tuned for more from the Qwiklabs team at <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/">Next ‘17</a>!</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/9PlA4VYY_Y8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/welcome-qwiklabs-google-cloud/Google CloudarticleWelcome Qwiklabs to Google CloudGoogle acquires Qwiklabs to skill up the world on Google Cloud Googlehttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/welcome-qwiklabs-google-cloud/Jason Martin Director, Professional ServicesGoogle Cloudhttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/welcome-qwiklabs-google-cloud/Google and Intel announce strategic alliance to accelerate cloud adoption in the enterprisehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/p5gMiFP2jKo/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Today, the Google Cloud team is excited to announce a strategic alliance with Intel to support and accelerate enterprise adoption of the cloud. We’ve worked closely with Intel for years on datacenter processor technology, and are now expanding our collaboration to help enterprise customers move from legacy infrastructure to an open, secure and future-proof cloud. The alliance will focus on technology integrations and joint market education efforts.</p><p>Google and Intel have been working closely for many years to engineer and validate processor technology within the data center. With this new alliance, we'll explore technology solutions for our enterprise customers in the areas of Kubernetes, machine learning, IoT and security, combining Google Cloud software capabilities with Intel’s advanced hardware. The alliance will focus on:</p><ul><li><p><b>Kubernetes</b> - Optimizing Kubernetes for Intel architecture to support a broad range of workloads. Intel is a major contributor to the Kubernetes ecosystem and enables enterprises to run OpenStack as a managed Kubernetes workload. Intel and Google engineers have already delivered code optimizations that have improved feature transparency on Intel architecture. This work is also expected to improve workload capabilities, including virtual network performance and prioritization of shared resources.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><b>Machine Learning</b> - Accelerating TensorFlow performance on Intel processors, for example by allowing TensorFlow to leverage all CPU cores and vector lanes for improved parallelism, integrating high-performance libraries such as the Math Kernel library (MKL) into TensorFlow, and optimizing memory allocation and data layer operations across a range of topologies.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><b>IoT</b> - Creating a secure platform for connecting Intel’s IoT edge devices to <a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> (GCP), where the data can be analyzed to inform better decisions — a critical capability for industries like retail and manufacturing.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><b>Security</b> - Enhancing security integrations between Intel hardware and GCP infrastructure that will further improve security for enterprise customers.</p></li></ul><p>In addition to exploring a number of new joint cloud solutions, with Intel we’re focused on developing technical education and market development materials that support the IT practitioners who are managing the transition to a multi-cloud world.</p><p>By deepening Google’s unique relationship with Intel, we can better help enterprises transition to the cloud. </p><p><br/></p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/p5gMiFP2jKo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-and-intel-announce-strategic-alliance-accelerate-cloud-adoption-enterprise/Google CloudarticleGoogle and Intel announce strategic alliance to accelerate cloud adoption in the enterpriseToday, the Google Cloud team is excited to announce a strategic alliance with Intel to support and accelerate enterprise adoption of the cloud.Googlehttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-and-intel-announce-strategic-alliance-accelerate-cloud-adoption-enterprise/Nan BodenHead of Global Technology PartnersGoogle Cloudhttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-and-intel-announce-strategic-alliance-accelerate-cloud-adoption-enterprise/Save time with new custom templates in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Formshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/lHxFWDvJtSw/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>We recently launched new tools in G Suite like <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/docs/explore-docs-sheets-and-slides/">Explore</a>, <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/five-new-ways-reach-your-goals-faster-g-suite/">Action items, and other features</a> to help your teams save time and focus on what’s important: creating impactful work, quicker. We know time spent re-creating files in the workplace takes away from the time your team can spend collaborating and achieving results. </p><p>That’s why, today, we’re rolling out custom <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148833">templates</a> in G Suite for the Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms files your teams use the most.</p><p></p><p>With this new feature, your team can simply submit files to shared template galleries in the <a href="http://docs.google.com">Docs</a>, <a href="http://sheets.google.com">Sheets</a>, <a href="http://slides.google.com">Slides</a> and <a href="http://forms.google.com">Forms</a> home screens for your co-workers to adapt and use as needed. With these customizable templates, your teams can focus less on formatting and more on driving impact and sharing success.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>G Suite for Business and Education customers can require templates <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/3055325">be approved</a> before they appear in the gallery or restrict who can submit new templates. Admins can learn more about enabling and using custom templates on the <a href="http://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/11/save-time-with-new-custom-templates-in.html">G Suite Apps Updates Blog</a>. </p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/lHxFWDvJtSw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/products/g-suite/save-time-new-custom-templates-docs-sheets-slides-and-forms/G SuiteGoogle CloudDocsSheetsSlidesFormsEducationarticleSave time with new custom templates in Docs, Sheets, Slides and FormsGooglehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/save-time-new-custom-templates-docs-sheets-slides-and-forms/ Brian Levee Product Managerhttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/save-time-new-custom-templates-docs-sheets-slides-and-forms/Build data-rich presentations in seconds with integrated apps and the Slides APIhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/PlpjIBGUZ6k/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Presentations are a staple in business communication. When done right, they help tell a story that can captivate, persuade, or inspire audiences. But crafting that story can be tedious, especially if you’re constantly flipping between screens to copy and paste charts, images, or figures into your slides.</p><p>If only there was an API for that….</p><p>Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the Google Slides API which gives developers programmatic access to create and update presentations in Slides from any data source. <a href="https://blog.google/products/docs/newapis/">We previewed the Slides API at I/O earlier this year</a> to change how business presentations are built. Now, your teams can use a number of ready-to-go integrations to turn your business data into presentations, with just a click.</p><p></p><h2>Build beautiful, up-to-date presentations in seconds using Conga, Trello, Lucidchart and Zapier</h2><p></p><p>Whether you’re looking to populate a quarterly business review (QBR) deck, add specs for weekly design review slides, or refresh event registration data for your daily update, the third-party apps below let you quickly and easily build beautiful, data-rich presentations.</p><p></p><ul><li><b>Generate your next QBR deck with Conga</b>: Conga makes document creation and reporting for Salesforce easy. With its Slides API integration you can create a quarterly business review presentation in Slides from your standard Salesforce Account records in seconds. <a href="https://getconga.com/resources/blog/qbr-in-google-slides/">Read more here</a>.<br/></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p></p><ul><li><b>Review complex visualizations with Lucidchart</b>: Lucidchart helps you create complex diagrams and visuals easily. With its Slides API integration you can export flowcharts, mockups, and other such visuals, break them into slides to cover specifics in more detail, and rapidly iterate on the content. <a href="https://apps.google.com/marketplace/app/apboafhkiegglekeafbckfjldecefkhn">You can find Lucidchart on the G Suite Marketplace</a> and <a href="https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2016/11/09/announcing-lucidcharts-integration-with-google-slides/">read more about the integration here</a>.</li><li><b>Create and respond to custom proposals requests with Zapier</b>: Zapier lets you create and automate business workflows. With its Slides API integration you can create, collaborate, and share dynamic presentations using Slides with just a few workflow rules. You can get started with the <a href="https://zapier.com/zapbook/google-slides/">Slides integration on Zapier</a> or <a href="https://zapier.com/zapbook/updates/840/google-slides-integrations/">learn more about it here</a>.<br/></li></ul><p></p><p>All of these app integrations are available to try today — and this is just the beginning. We’re working with many other software vendors, including <a href="http://www.prosperworksblog.com/prosperworks-debuts-google-slides-api-integration-at-google-io/">ProsperWorks</a>, <a href="https://www.aodocs.com/blog/aodocs-reporting-with-the-google-slides-api">AODocs</a> and <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/scriptsexamples/home/announcements/turn-your-form-submissions-into-presentations">Form Publisher</a> to help you do more in less time in all sorts of ways.</p><p><i>Developers can start using the Slides API today. Documentation and demos are available at <a href="http://developers.google.com/slides">developers.google.com/slides</a> and they can <a href="http://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com/2016/11/introducing-google-slides-api.html">read more about it here</a>.</i><br/></p><p></p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/PlpjIBGUZ6k" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/products/g-suite/slides-api/G SuiteDocsSlidesFormsGmailGoogle CloudDevelopersarticleBuild data-rich presentations in seconds with integrated apps and the Slides APIGooglehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/slides-api/Vishnu SivajiProduct Manager, G Suitehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/slides-api/Google Cloud Platform Tokyo region now open for businesshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/smwfopFIekM/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> (GCP) continues to rapidly expand our global footprint. Today, we're lighting up our latest cloud region in Tokyo – asia-northeast1.</p><p>As one of the fastest growing technology markets, the Asia-Pacific region has been important to GCP since the beginning. Building on our existing Taiwan cloud region, Tokyo doubles our presence in Asia, for a total of six zones.</p>These cloud regions build upon Google’s networking backbone, including recent investments in <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/06/Google-Cloud-customers-run-at-the-speed-of-light-with-new-FASTER-undersea-pipe.html">FASTER</a> and <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/new-undersea-cable-expands-capacity-for-Google-APAC-customers-and-users.html">PLCN</a> submarine cables. Google has an immense worldwide networking presence, in Asia and around the world, resulting in high performance for GCP customers.</div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>“We have been using GCP services in big data analysis for the entire Recruit Group. We are very glad to hear this news and really appreciate the launch of GCP Tokyo region, which will enable us to leverage more GCP technology and services that require low latency. We would like to use the advanced services of GCP Tokyo region, such as machine learning, and are looking forward to growing our business through our mutual partnership with Google.” - Keiichiro Maeda, Corporate Executive Officer (Big Data, ID Point), Recruit Technologies Co.,Ltd.</p></div></div>
<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Available now, the Cloud Region in Tokyo offers the following core services:</p><ul><li><p>Compute services, including <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/">Google Compute Engine</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/">Google Cloud Storage</a>,<a href="https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/"> Google Cloud Persistent Disk</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> Standard Environment and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/">Google Container Engine</a></p></li><li><p>Database and data analytics services, including <a href="https://cloud.google.com/datastore/">Google Cloud Datastore</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/">Google Cloud Dataflow</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/">Google Cloud Dataproc</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/1st-2nd-gen-differences">Cloud SQL Second Generation</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/">Google Cloud Pub/Sub</a></p></li><li><p>All core networking and security services, including <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dns/">Google Cloud DNS</a>, Cloud VPN, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/cloudrouter">Cloud Router</a>, Auto Scaling and Load Balancing, and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/iam/">Google Cloud IAM</a></p></li></ul><p>To help onboard customers, we’re also working with several partners in Japan who will provide their services from the new Tokyo region. Some of our early partners include JSOL, a provider of data analytics and machine learning solutions, and Groovenauts, which develops online gaming technology.</p><p>In the last few years, GCP has grown to serve a diverse set of customers from mobile gaming studios to traditional enterprises, all of whom depend on our cloud regions and network to reach their customers across Asia and beyond. We look forward to welcoming businesses to the Tokyo region and are excited to see what they build with our platform.</p><p>You can follow our <a href="https://cloud.google.com/about/locations">locations page</a> for updates on the availability of additional services, including new regions in Singapore and Sydney coming in 2017. For more information about how to deploy your resources, visit our <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-zones">zones and regions page</a>. Fill out <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/U5qAZB1tGR9NUlgB2">this survey</a> to request early access to our future regions, and to help us prioritize which regions Google open next.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/smwfopFIekM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-platform-tokyo-region-now-open-for-business/Google CloudarticleGoogle Cloud Platform Tokyo region now open for businessGoogle Cloud Platform continues to rapidly expand our global footprint. Today, we're lighting up our latest cloud region in Tokyo – asia-northeast1.Googlehttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-platform-tokyo-region-now-open-for-business/Varun SakalkarProduct ManagerGoogle Cloud PlatformDave StiverProduct ManagerGoogle Cloud Platformhttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-platform-tokyo-region-now-open-for-business/Jamboard — the whiteboard, reimagined for collaboration in the cloudhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/6FBsHv7FJys/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Bringing the right team together for a meeting or brainstorm can take an idea from being good to great. When we tap into ideas from teams across the globe, our work becomes more collaborative and productive. It doesn’t feel like...well, work.</p><p>At Google, we’ve set out to redefine meetings. So today, we’re introducing Jamboard — a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas in real-time and create without boundaries. We’re moving the whiteboard to the cloud. <br/></p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>It’s a hassle when you use a whiteboard, reach the end of your meeting and have to quickly scramble to snap a picture of your work. How many times have you scribbled “do not erase” above your idea? Jamboard lets you take your work with you. When you “jam” with your colleagues, it lives in the cloud in Google Drive, so you can easily share what you’ve created or come back to iterate at anytime. Your brainstorm doesn’t have to end when the meeting does.</p></div></div>
<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><h3>Designed for precision and ease</h3>Jamboard is intelligently designed to speed up collaboration among your teams with a 55-inch 4k display that features a best-in-class touch response time. Combine this with a built-in HD camera, speakers and Wi-Fi, and you’re set up to collaborate and broadcast your work globally with Hangouts. </div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Jamboard’s touchscreen was built for precision drawing. It automatically recognizes the difference between using the stylus to sketch or the eraser to start over, and neither require batteries or pairing. Jamboard can also sense when you’re using your finger to wipe work off of the screen, just like a classic whiteboard (except you won’t get ink on your hand). The intuitive, single-cable setup makes it easy to start creating quickly with Jamboard — just wheel it in, turn it on and start brainstorming.</p><h3>Time to jam</h3></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>We want to help teams get back to the heart of what they love to do: create new ideas. That’s why we’ve worked closely with G Suite customers like Instrument, Netflix, and Spotify to refine the blend of hardware and software that drives Jamboard. We're also partnering with <a href="http://www.benq.com/index.php">BenQ</a> to tap into its network of channels and resellers to help bring Jamboard to market.</p><p>While touch displays have traditionally been expensive, at under $6,000 USD, Jamboard is a competitively-priced way to transform your team’s meetings and will be available for purchase in 2017. As we “jam” on the final product details, we're ready to partner with a broader set of G Suite customers to perfect Jamboard through an Early Adopter Program. If you're interested, <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/jamboard">submit the form on the Jamboard website</a> to receive more information about eligibility.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/6FBsHv7FJys" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/products/g-suite/jamboard-whiteboard-reimagined-collaboration-cloud/G SuiteGoogle CloudDriveDocsSheetsSlidesarticleJamboard — the whiteboard, reimagined for collaboration in the cloudThe newest addition to G Suite, Jamboard is a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas and create without boundaries.https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Shot_03_004_v6.198f1d73.fill-540x540.jpgGooglehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/jamboard-whiteboard-reimagined-collaboration-cloud/TJ VargheseProduct Manager, G Suitehttps://blog.google/products/g-suite/jamboard-whiteboard-reimagined-collaboration-cloud/Helping universities build what’s next with Google Cloud Platformhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/yHIwZcw2ASM/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> (GCP) now serves over one billion end-users through our customers’ products and services. And today I’m happy to say that we’re investing even more resources to bring these tools to higher education. We’re excited to offer universities the same powerful infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning that we use to drive innovation and performance.</p><p>We believe that universities can benefit from Google Cloud Platform in three areas: research, infrastructure and teaching. In research, GCP big data and machine learning tools can power experiments and analyses that weren’t even possible just a year ago. GCP frees academic IT organizations from the overhead of managing infrastructure, provisioning servers and configuring networks, and in teaching we enable professors to teach modern cloud computing subjects on Google Cloud Platform.</p><h3>Supporting university research and infrastructure with Internet2</h3><p>We’re committed to working closely with users to understand their needs. With the aim of exploring opportunities for the cloud with universities, Google is pleased to announce that it has joined <a href="http://www.internet2.edu/">Internet2</a>, a US-based not-for-profit, member-driven technology and advanced networking consortium dedicated to advancing new innovations and scientific discoveries for the next generation of research and education.</p><p>Founded in 1996, Internet2 provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to solve shared technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research and community service missions. Internet2 operates a research and education network and serves more than 317 U.S. universities, 70 government agencies, 42 regional and state education networks, 80 leading corporations and more than 65 national research and education networking from over 100 countries.</p><p>Internet2 and Google will work with universities across the United States to explore how GCP can better serve higher education. We hope to develop projects that address the higher education community’s needs around big data and machine learning technologies that can be met by Google’s cloud tools.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><h3>Powering computer science teaching</h3><p>In June we announced <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/06/new-Google-Cloud-Platform-Education-Grants-offer-free-credits-to-students.html">Google Cloud Platform Education Grants</a>, and I'm pleased to share that hundreds of courses have been awarded free credits for their students. GCP is helping universities level the playing field, providing students with equal access to best-in-class compute resources. For example, at California State University, San Bernadino, Professor Vasilia’s students are learning about networking and cybersecurity by using GCP’s API’s to program database information. Students are learning to display geolocation signal strength heatmap information for internet access points, set up virtual private networks in the cloud, test firewall rules, set up network segments and read machine data between networks using GCP’s virtual network infrastructure. Fall classes are just underway, and we can’t wait to tell you more about what students learn and create with GCP tools. Professors teaching courses in computer science and related fields at universities in the US can still <a href="https://goo.gl/8PVADq">apply for grants</a> for classes this year or next year.</p><h3>Connecting with universities at EDUCAUSE</h3><p>This week we’ll connect with hundreds of universities at the annual EDUCAUSE conference. If you'll be at the conference in Anaheim, visit us at booth #1800. There, you can see demos of GCP, G Suite for Education (formerly known as Google Apps for Education), Chromebooks, Chrome digital signage, student and faculty programs and the latest in virtual reality. You can also join us for “<a href="https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/agenda/machine-learning-101">Machine Learning 101</a>” Wednesday 2:30-3:20pm PT in Room 210D. Learn more from universities who are benefiting from Google technology by attending our session “<a href="https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/agenda/the-impact-of-collaborative-tools-lessons-from-universities-using-google-apps-for-education">The Impact of Collaborative Tools</a> - Lessons from Universities Using G Suite for Education (formerly known as Google Apps for Education)” on Thursday at 1:30-2:20pm PT in Room 210C.</p><p>We're committed to strengthening our partnership with the broader higher education community, and look forward to seeing the results.</p></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/yHIwZcw2ASM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/education/helping-universities-build-whats-next-google-cloud-platform/EducationGoogle CloudarticleHelping universities build what’s next with Google Cloud PlatformGoogle is investing resources to bring the power of Google Cloud Platform to higher education research, infrastructure and teaching
https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/educause-datacenter.2e16d0ba.fill-540x540.pngGooglehttps://blog.google/topics/education/helping-universities-build-whats-next-google-cloud-platform/Bram BoutDirector of Educationhttps://blog.google/topics/education/helping-universities-build-whats-next-google-cloud-platform/Five new ways to reach your goals faster with G Suitehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/6seGLpxUw88/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>One of the core promises of Google Docs is to help you and your team go from collecting ideas to achieving your goals as quickly and easily as possible. That’s why last month we launched <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/docs/explore-docs-sheets-and-slides/">Explore</a> in Docs, Sheets and Slides — with machine intelligence built right in — to help your team create amazing presentations, spreadsheets and documents in a fraction of the time it used to take.</p><p>Today, we’re introducing five new time-saving features designed to speed up and simplify the way you work, so you can focus on bringing your team’s ideas to life.</p><h3>1. Spend less time figuring out who owns what with Action Items</h3><p>According to research by the <a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/the-social-economy">McKinsey Global Institute</a>, employees spend about 20 percent of their work week — nearly an entire day — searching for details internally and tracking down colleagues for answers. This can be especially true when a document is full of ideas, requests and comments, making it difficult to get a clear sense of who’s responsible for what.</p>To help keep your projects moving, when you type phrases like “Ryan to follow up on the keynote script,” or “Andrea to schedule a weekly check in” on desktop, Docs will intelligently <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/65129#suggested_action">suggest an Action Item</a> to assign to the right person, thanks to Natural Language Processing (NLP).</div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><h3>4. Spend less time typing with a set of new voice commands</h3><p>Last year, we launched <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-docs-classroom-school.html">Voice typing</a> in Docs on the web to help you capture ideas, big and small, without lifting a finger. Today, we’re adding more ways to format and customize content with commands for changing text color, deleting words, inserting links and comments, plus a number of <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/4492226?hl=en">other ways</a> to format, hands-free.</p><h3>5. Spend less time switching between apps to get things done</h3><p>We want you to be as productive and collaborative as possible, regardless of the tools you choose to work with, so we’ve partnered with Slack to make it even easier to work with Google Docs files.</p><p>With a click of the "+" button in Slack, you can bring files from Drive directly into a conversation with your team, or create new Docs, Sheets and Slides files right from Slack. You can check out more details on <a href="https://slackhq.com/google-drive-slack-79c862fa5e55#.9u032v2oi">Slack’s blog</a>.</p></div></div>
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<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>The Sales Cloud integration with Sheets, meanwhile, makes it easy for sales reps to link any Salesforce List View to a Google Sheet. Users can also view, edit and delete records within Sheets and sync those changes back to Salesforce. Better still, the integration also supports your business logic and validation rules. </p><p>We gave a joint preview of the Sales Cloud and Google Sheets integration <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-xpjgUwx4">at Google I/O this summer</a>, and today are happy to announce that it will be available in beta to all Sales Cloud customers by the end of this year. </p>We had a blast working with the Salesforce team to bring these new solutions to life.</div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/xYUEu1KzoZ0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/peek-into-the-future-of-work-with-salesforce/Google CloudG SuitearticlePeeking into the future of work with SalesforceIntroducing Salesforce Lightning for Gmail and Sales Cloud integration with Google Sheets, two integrations that help you work more effectively with smart tools.Googlehttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/peek-into-the-future-of-work-with-salesforce/Tom HolmanProduct ManagerGoogle Sheetshttps://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/peek-into-the-future-of-work-with-salesforce/It takes a teacherhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/xlvPdXsbuFs/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><i><b>Editor's Note: </b>Today on World Teachers’ Day we want to shine light on the creative power of teachers worldwide. Over the next few months we’ll share a series of teacher stories, building towards a global online gathering of educators on December 3: <a href="https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/live/2016-dec?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=2016-edu-apps-na-eduonair-orgsocial-blogs-blog&amp;utm_content=">Education on Air.</a> Join the movement by sharing what teachers mean to you with <a href="http://g.co/ItTakesATeacher">#ItTakesATeacher</a>.</i></p></div></div>
<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>In ninth grade, a science teacher named Grady Clay taught me that science is more than what's in our textbooks. He encouraged me to get hands-on through a research project on aerodynamics. With his guidance, I built a wind tunnel, tested a hypothesis, wrote a paper on the results, and presented to a room of real scientists. Mr. Clay challenged me to be a self-starter and problem solver, which ignited a passion for science and engineering that continues to drive me today. </p></div></div>
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This year, you can choose from 100+ sessions and engage with educators globally around key themes:</p><ul><li><p><b>It takes a teacher to spark creativity:</b> keynotes on skills of the future from <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaGillard?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Julia Gillard</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ldh_ed?lang=en">Linda Darling Hammond</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/profrwinston">Professor Robert Winston</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MsMagiera?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Jennie Magiera</a> and many more.</p></li><li><p><b>It takes a teacher to improve student learning: </b>research on how educators have transformed schools and measured their impact.</p></li><li><p><b>It takes a teacher to prepare students for the world: </b>tips and tools to help boost student engagement, collaboration and productivity in the classroom.</p></li></ul><p><a href="https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/live/2016-dec?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=2016-edu-apps-na-eduonair-orgsocial-blogs-blog&amp;utm_content=">Register today to join us</a> on December 3 in the best seat in the house (your own!) to connect with other teachers, administrators and school leaders. </p><p>Finally, celebrating teachers shouldn’t be limited to just one day — or even one week — of the year. Join our movement to celebrate teachers like Mr. Clay every day by sharing what <a href="https://www.google.com/edu/teacher/">#ItTakesATeacher</a> means to you and spreading the message to educators and supporters worldwide.</p>Happy World Teachers’ Day!</div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~4/xlvPdXsbuFs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:00:00 +0000https://blog.google/topics/education/it-takes-teacher/EducationChromebooksG SuitearticleIt takes a teacherOver the next few months we’ll share a series of teacher stories, building towards a global online gathering of educators in December. Join the movement by sharing what teachers mean to you with #ItTakesATeacher.https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Beatriz_w_7G7A7465.2e16d0ba.fill-540x540.jpgGooglehttps://blog.google/topics/education/it-takes-teacher/Rajen ShethSenior Director of Product ManagementAndroid and Chrome for Business and Educationhttps://blog.google/topics/education/it-takes-teacher/All together now. Introducing G Suite.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleforWork/~3/qXmD82B83mA/<div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text">All around the world, businesses are filling up with busyness. Employees today are more plugged-in than ever before, but technology too often gets in the way of turning ideas into game changers. For businesses, sharing and communicating has gotten complicated and often happens in silos. The bigger the company, the bigger the challenge.<br/><br/>But what if technology lived up to its promise for us at work? What if it helped us cut through the noise so we could work together to focus on what matters?<br/><br/>We created Google Apps for Work ten years ago (back when it was Google Apps for Your Domain) to do just that — to help people everywhere work and innovate together, so businesses can move faster and go bigger.<br/><br/>And today, we’re introducing a new name that better reflects this mission: <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/together/">G Suite</a>.<br/><br/>G Suite is a set of intelligent apps—Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more—designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration built in from the start. And there’s<a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html"> a lot more on the way</a>. Because we believe that when organizations break down silos, connect people and empower them to work together, we get the speed, agility and impact needed to compete in today’s market.<br/><br/><p></p>So in the spirit of teamwork, we partnered with some of our favorite illustrators from around the world to bring our ideas to life with their iconic creativity.</div></div>
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